07/03/2008
Time Area and details of animal Weather: Sunny
Min temp: 17°C
Max temp: 26°C
07:30 Report
08:30 Went with Michael to look at the 2nd dead giraffe, it is a female.
09:30 Did e-mails and photos
11:30 Drove to the lodge and then around the mountain to look for the rest of the rest of the
giraffes, could not find them only saw one lone Impala ram.
14:30 Got back home, saw 12 Giraffes in front of the house, only one missing.
15:00 Mandla came back to do his report, he said he saw all 13 remaining giraffe when he came up to the house, that means all of them is alright.
15:25 Went up the mountain to fetch the sprayers at the fence on top.
16:30 Home.
08/03/2008
Time Area and details of animal Weather: Sunny
Min temp: 18°C
Max temp: 26°C
07:30 Report
08:30 Went to Geluk to see if I could find the Blue Wildebeest, saw nothing.
10:00 Went to look at the 2 giraffe carcasses, the scavengers are trying their best to finish them
off. No vultures yet.
12:00 Got a call from Mike to go and capture a 4m long python in his lands where the tractors are busy in the lands. He ask m if I can relocate it to Umphafa where it will be out of the way of all the heavy machinery.
13:00 Released the python on Umphafa at the back valley just behind the lodge site.
14:30 Went up the mountain to fetch the sprayers.
15:30 Brought them down, and left to fetch the team that is working on the electric fence.
16:30 Home.
09/03/2008
Time Area and details of animal Weather: Sunny
Min temp: 19°C
Max temp: 28°C
07:30 Did the report
08:30 Left to fix the school floor.
09:30 Fetched the cement from Ladysmith.
11:00 Fetched the classroom keys from Cindy the headmistress. Stayed the rest of the day
there fixing the one classrooms floor, tomorrow we will finish and start with the second classroom.
16:30 Home.
10/03/2008
Time Area and details of animal Weather: Sunny
Min temp: 17°C
Max temp: 26°C
07:30 Report
08:30 Went to school to continue fixing the floor, we got halfway through laying the cement and mixing it, it takes a bit of time to fetch the water and mixing it with the cement, sand and stone.
16:00 We finished ¾ of the floor, tomorrow we will finish it off.
16:30 Home.
11/03/2008
Time Area and details of animal Weather: Sunny
Min temp: 15°C
Max temp: 25°C
07:30 Report
08:30 Left to go and finish the school floor.
12:00 Finished fixing the floor, and I took the guys back to the farm.
13:00 Went to Ladysmith to Waltons to go and sign a invoice and to get some groceries
15:30 Got home and fetched the guys working on the fence.
16:30 Home.
